Over the last few years the Equality and Diversity departments of most National Governing Bodies (NGBs) in sport have been busily updating their ‘transgender inclusion’ policies. While we can all agree that sport should be a welcoming space for anyone and everyone, the impact on fairness and safety in female
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Female-only changing rooms are lawful This guidance highlights the relevant sections in UK law to help service providers who offer changing room facilities to their customers. There is little in the way of established case law for businesses to rely on, so instead this guide sets out the legal framework
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This week CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) will be ruling on the legality of the IAAF eligibility criteria for DSD athletes, as reported here in the Guardian and Daily Mail. DSD encompasses a wide range of developmental sex disorders and rules are needed to decide which sex category each
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The Problem: Women and girls are being pushed out of sports to make way for biological males who “identify as women”. A desire to be inclusive is having unintended negative consequences at all levels of female sport. No one considered fairness and safety for women and girls or male performance
Read moreFair Play For Women began in 2017 as a small, informal women’s discussion group concerned about the impact of transgender policy on the participation of women and girls in sport, with a diverse membership of women from all walks of life. As time went on, the discussion topics expanded to
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Most sports governing bodies in the UK have developed and adopted transgender inclusion policies with advice from Stonewall and Gendered Intelligence. Whilst we believe these policies were developed with the best intentions, we are seeing that many have taken no account of the impact on fairness and meaningful competition for
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Introduction The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone against direct and indirect discrimination on the basis of nine characteristics and requires public authorities to advance equality for people with these protected characteristics. One of the characteristics is ‘sex’ (not gender) and another is ‘gender reassignment’. The protected characteristic of sex refers to men
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USA Powerlifting has a clear and fair policy on transgender participation in competition. Sex matters in sport. Not gender identity. This is a great example of how this can be done. Thank you USAPL for standing up for fairness. Performance enhancing drugs like Testosterone are banned for ALL competitors. The
Read moreREPORT: Giving a voice to silenced women. In 2018 we published our own report documenting the concerns about sex self-ID and GRA reform held by professionals and service users in the women’s sector. REPORT: Giving a voice to silenced women. Transgender Prisoner Study In
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Read moreClick on links for PDF versions ready to view, download or print FACTSHEET: Why is transgender inclusion a problem in female competitive sport? FACTSHEET: UK Equality law and the single-sex exemptions FACTSHEET: A woman’s legal right to
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